Floodplain vs Valley - What's the difference?
floodplain | valley |
(geography) An alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding.
An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
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Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
As nouns the difference between floodplain and valley
is that floodplain is an alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding while valley is an elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.As a proper noun Valley is
the San Fernando Valley in southern California.floodplain
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(flood plain) (en noun)See also
* alluvial plainvalley
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(en noun)John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys .}}